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June 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Final big hour, Open Line Friday.
Callers choose that which they wish to discuss.
Have at it.
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There's even more in the papal encyclia.
Now, this was predictable.
The papal encyclia comes out and the parts in it that sound like the Democrat Party platform are being touted by the big media.
And it sounds exactly like it is from the Democrat Party platform when it comes to climate change and global warming.
But the media is omitting two things.
Most of the media.
The first we discussed yesterday is abortion.
The Pope points out that, hey, you cannot be an environmentalist demanding great stewardship of the earth and all that God created and be pro-choice at the same time.
If you are going to be proactive on climate change, if you are going to be oriented toward protecting all that God created, how can you be in favor of abortion?
So the Pope told the environmentalist wackos, and it's fascinating too, psychologically, the left hates the Catholic Church, but it's actually more of a self-hate.
Because when the Catholic Church, via Il Papa, says anything that Democrats agree with, they're the first to embrace the Pope.
And that tells me a lot psychologically.
It tells me that they would love it if the Pope would embrace what they did desperately want that authoritative embrace.
They really do.
They hate the Catholic Church.
They hate organized religion for what it stands for, what they consider it to be the limits imposed on a good time and freedom of this and freedom of that.
But when the Pope comes down on their side, they're the first to embrace him.
But they haven't been told.
Many environmentalist nutcases and wackos and others mainstream have not been told what the Pope also said about abortion.
And now we've learned there's something else in the encyclical.
The Pope comes down hard on transgenderism in his encyclical.
In his new encyclical on the environment, the Pope condemns the relativism at the core of gender theory and urges those struggling with gender identity issues to accept their bodies as God made them.
Let me read to you from the papal encyclia itself.
The acceptance of our bodies as God's gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home.
Whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns often subtly into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation.
If the left is ever told about all of this that's in this encyclical, they are going to be pretzeled in confusion.
The Pope in his encyclical argues that human ecology underscores the relationship between human life and the moral law, which he says is inscribed in our nature.
This human ecology, he says, is based on the fact that man, quote, has a nature he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will.
Now, what we have going on here is selective application.
The environmentalist wackos and the left and the Democrat Party think the Pope is agreeing with them on climate change.
So, man, they're snapping two and they're embracing that.
They are ignoring the Pope's rationale and logic.
Hey, if you're going to be green, if you're going to protect the earth, if you're going to say protecting the earth is paramount, then you've got to protect everything in it and you've got to accept everything in it as created, including your own body, including you do not kill other people in the womb.
They're ignoring those two things, and they probably will get away with it.
The media is not going to tout this stuff.
The National Journal is the closest you can get to the drive-by media that has pointed this out.
Now, we here on the EIB network pointing it out, and I'm sure other conservative media is.
In fact, Chris Wallace, I think last night on the Brett Baer show, what do they call it?
Special report.
Grab Sunbit's, yeah, it's 20 and 21.
Chris Wallace guest hosted a special report with Brett Baer.
It's during the All-Star Panel segment.
And Wallace asks a question of Dr. Krauthammer.
While liberals are cheering the Pope's statements about global warming, there are some other statements that they may have some trouble with.
And let's put those up on the screen.
In this encyclical, the Pope also says this, since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion.
Charles, that's kind of an interesting linkage by the Pope.
And this is what Krauthammer said.
Look, and the left has been quite selective in embracing the Pope's statements, depending on what it likes and what it doesn't like.
So it's inconsistent, but Dr. Knauthamma is suggesting that they're going to get away with it.
They get to selectively choose what they like and don't like, and nobody's going to call them on it.
And that's probably true, but you know, and everybody in this audience knows.
And it points up once again the glaring, blatant hypocrisy.
People on the left.
Now back to the South Carolina situation, in particular commentary that I've come across in the media that I find telling.
James Clyburn, who is a former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians in the House of Representatives, was on CNN last night.
This situation room.
Now, remember, we had this 21-year-old.
This guy looks like one of the three stooges.
Has anybody noticed this?
Does anybody, do you know anybody runs around with a bowl haircut like that anymore?
This is a 21-year-old kid that looks all of 15.
Something's odd here.
Something is really, really odd here.
But I don't know anybody running around with a bowl haircut like this, like Mo of the Three Stooges.
Anyway, he confessed.
So everybody's on TV now and they've got their opinion on it.
Here is James Clyburn.
Now, listen to what he says in just 18 seconds, but listen to this.
We got to speak up.
We got to stand up.
Unless people do that, speak up and speak out, the evil-thinking people will control the airwaves and they will control the activities, much of which is not good for the future of this great country.
What is the airwaves?
What do the airwaves have to do with this?
The airwaves?
Do you hear what he said here?
We got to speak up.
We got to stand up.
Unless people do that, speak up and speak out.
The evil-thinking people will control the airwaves.
Did this guy have a radio show?
Was this guy on shortwave talking back and forth with the Michigan militia?
Was this guy a CB operator?
The closest this guy probably came to being on the radio is using his phone, right?
So what is Clyburn talking about here?
Well, we all know, I'm asking rhetorically.
It's his veiled attempt to blame talk radio in Fox News.
But the thing about this is he has a daughter named Stake, and she is a commissioner on the FCC.
Philae Mignon.
No, Mignon, Mignon, Mignon Clyburn.
Stake's a nickname.
It's a lovable nickname that I've given him.
Stake Clyburn.
Mignon Clyburn, she is on the FCC.
She's a commissioner.
Well, if Clyburn's daughter is on the FCC and he's running around talking about people will control the airwaves unless we speak up.
Nothing to do with the airwaves.
In fact, when this is all said and done, you know, now that this kid's confessed, this ought to be said and done two or three months.
There's no reason this case to go on for a year.
And there's no reason.
By the way, I saw, I saw our old buddy Jay Christian Adams interviewed earlier today.
He resigned the Obama Department of Justice.
Remember, he was in the civil rights division, and he was conducting the investigation of voter fraud on the new Black Panther Party of Philadelphia following 2008.
And Eric Holder basically said, we're not prosecuting people like that.
So he resigned.
And he's become a commentator, a think tank fellow in an endowed chair.
And he goes on TV and does endowed chair type commentary.
And he was on today talking about the fact that Loretta Lynch, the new attorney general, said, oh, yeah, we're going to do our investigation.
Oh, yes, we are.
And he said, I've tried cases in South Carolina, and they are superb.
And prosecutions like this are overwhelmingly in charge of the states.
The states own these kinds of prosecutions.
He said the DOJ was thoroughly qualified to go in and do their own, by the way, their own investigation, because this is clearly a civil rights violation.
It's clearly under their umbrella.
But he was really bullish on the criminal justice system in South Carolina.
And he says they're more than equipped to deal with this, and they'll deal with this responsibly, and they can do it in months.
No reason for this case to be dragged out months and months and months, especially now we got a confession.
But what's going to happen next is: well, is he mentally competent to confess?
Does he know what he's confessing to?
Clearly, he does.
He wanted to start a race war.
That's why I'm wondering what this kid has been taught about evolution and how much was he paying attention to it when he was taught it.
Anyway, they have an opportunity here to get this done and over with, but it's, believe me, in a lot of people's interest for this to drag on and to remain a lead news story for months now.
Don't doubt me.
Last night, CNN, the lead with Jake Tapper, he spoke with state House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford, Democrat.
I think he's a South Carolina state House Minority Leader.
And Tapper said, You said the rhetoric nationwide has had an impact on this twisted racist maniac.
What rhetoric are you talking about?
Now, how did this segment get set up?
You think Jack Tapper doesn't know what this guy's going to say?
I guarantee you, they went on, they found a guy to say what CNN wants said on their network and what CNN wants said on their network.
They want to go find somebody who's going to say it's talk radio and Fox News.
So here you have your typical softball question, knowing what the answer is going to be.
And here is what Rutherford said.
Words that come from these networks that broadcast what they call news, but it's not.
It's really hate speech.
He hears that because he watches the news and he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they're really not.
They use that coded language.
They use hate speech.
They talk about the president as if he's not the president.
They talk about churchgoers as if they're not really churchgoers.
And that's what this young man acted on.
That's why you can walk into a church and treat people like animals when they're really human beings.
That is just utterly disgraceful.
And somebody responsible at CNN, if they knew this was what he was going to say, should have canceled the interview.
Words come from these networks that really hate speech.
He watches things like Fox News.
Has this been established?
This kid watch Fox News?
Has there been that link established yet?
See, he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things they call news, but it's really not.
They use that coded language.
They use hate speech.
They talk about the president if he's not the president.
They talk about church gores.
What?
They talk about church gores like they're not church Fox News.
I'm telling you, folks, conservative media is not where you're going to find the explanations for this kind of evil behavior.
This guy's name is Todd Rutherford, and he's the state House Minority Leader in South Carolina.
It's an elected official, and he's dumping on Fox News.
But the point is, you're not going to find conservative media with any culpability here.
Conservative media is not responsible for this kind of stuff.
This guy, insane, unbalanced, lunatic, what have you.
I guarantee you, if this guy has paid any attention to media at all, it's mainstream media with nothing but endless stories of the apocalypse That have to have an impact.
But I don't even know that that's what's going to end up being blamed here.
We just don't know yet, which means we can blame guns and Fox News and talk radio.
Same pattern.
Plug and play.
No intellectual curiosity, just the advancement of the leftist agenda.
Meanwhile, here's another bit of data from the Gallup poll.
Actually, this one's from the Pew Research Center.
Millennials don't trust anyone.
Yesterday, it was millennials have lost confidence in everything.
Today it's they don't trust anybody.
Wonder why they're watching Comedy Central.
They're watching the e-entertainment or they're watching NBC, CBS, NBC, Yahoo News.
You name it.
Wonder why they think all this negative stuff.
How do these people know that this guy watches Fox News?
I thought millennials didn't watch Fox News.
I thought young people didn't watch Fox.
I thought only old people with one foot in a grave watch Fox News.
How does Hillary know this guy watch Fox News?
He's blaming Fox News and Trump for this guy.
How do they know that this guy even watches Fox News?
Anyway, Scott in Philadelphia, great to have you open line Friday, sir.
Hello.
It's an honor, Rush.
I got a problem with all the McConnell, Boehner, and Carl Rose.
They've high-checked the party.
I want to know why nobody says nothing about it.
I mean, we elect these conservatives, they get in there, and then they're browbeaten in the submission.
Well, it's not that nobody says anything about it.
I myself have been referencing this.
Others I know have.
I mean, I know people who are making this the focal point of their media presentations.
I think what people was going to say, people don't understand.
I think people do understand it.
The Republican Party establishment co-opted by the Chamber of Commerce.
And the Chamber of Commerce appears to have been infiltrated by the left.
Yeah, but we keep electing our conservatives in there and nothing gets done.
Well, because everyone's just going to give up.
Yeah, so what you're really angry about here is that the conservative minority in the House is not actively trying to stop Boehner and McConnell.
Is that your real complaint?
Right.
Get them two out of, I mean, start a revolt.
Get them two out of control.
Well, what do you mean, start a revolt?
You mean get rid of Boehner and McConnell from leadership?
Yeah, they made a little attempt of it in the beginning when they made Boehner Speaker of the House, but I say they'd have gotten more votes than that to get rid of them.
Well, no, I understand the desire.
It's just that it's the way the rules in these institutions exist, it's really hard to get rid of these leaders.
And if you fail, you're done.
You don't get a committee.
You don't get any reelection money.
I'm not making excuses for it.
I'm just trying to explain to you the way it is.
But the Republican Party is not what you think it is anymore.
The Republican Party establishment, the big donors, they want amnesty, for example.
They want cheap, this is all about cheap labor.
I hate saying it.
I can't tell you how much I hate saying it.
I just resent having to be honest about that.
Because it's not the Republican Party I thought I grew up with.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
And this is Drew in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
This is like a lifelong dream to talk to you.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it.
I sent pictures in a long time ago of me and my sister when we were about two or three years old kissing the television when my parents had it paused on your face during your half-hour news hour.
I love that.
I did have a kissable face back then, didn't I?
You most certainly did.
But I even sat in my tree house at like 10 years old trying to call in and clip with you about presidential election and midterm elections.
So I've been listening forever.
But I wanted to ask you, shift it from politics, the Open Mind Friday, to I'm getting into interested in the smoking cigars, and I know that you have your one o'clock cigar that you light up all the time.
And while you may be just a little out of touch for people that may not have all the money and the ability to get Cuban cigars like you can, where would I start?
And where do you get?
Wait, wait, wait.
I do not get Cuban cigars.
I am a law-abiding American citizen.
Now, some people have given me Cubans over the years.
But I wouldn't know where to tell you to go get them.
Unless you're in Europe or Canada.
Sure, sure.
So.
He doesn't believe me.
But, okay, so you're all Biden seems great with that.
Okay, so where should I start?
You know, I'm kind of lower on the totem pool.
I don't know that much about it.
I definitely don't have the access to all the varieties and knowledge that you do.
Okay.
What do you mean you don't have access to the varieties and knowledge?
Well, you know, since I don't know.
What is it that you really want to know?
Do you really want to smoke a Cuban cigar and you secretly want to find out how, and you're trying to get me in trouble with various authorities?
And the kissing my face on TV was just a setup for it.
No.
No, I want to know where to start.
You know, I'll get to Cubans eventually in my life.
I have plenty of years to get there.
So I think if you really want to, you can go to Cuba now and you can buy $100 worth of Cuban cigars and bring it back.
I mean, Obama's, you really could if you wanted to go if you want a Cuban cigar that bad.
No.
Let me tell you a little truth about something here.
Since you do know a lot about cigars because they're a passion of mine.
And I can tell you this, the finest cigar aficionados, the most achieved and accomplished cigar aficionados will tell you that the Cuban cigars after 1997 just aren't what they used to be.
And that it ties in directly with two things.
When the Soviet Union imploded and the $5 billion a year subsidy that the Soviets gave the Cubans, when that dried up, so did a lot.
The sugar industry, the tobacco industry.
I mean, it went to hell in a handbasket fast.
And they made some other changes.
The cigar fad in the early 90s led to the Cubans increasing their output, which meant that they were not aging their tobacco as long as they used to, which meant it wasn't as good.
My point is, there are so many great cigars coming out of Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic today that are as well made, if not better made.
It's a shame, really.
But the best Cuban cigars are not the ones being made today.
You don't sound either believing or what have you, but I'm telling you the truth.
You're not missing out anything here.
You can find some fabulous, fabulous cigars from the Dominican, from Nicaragua, from all over the place.
Okay, so give me a couple of names, where to start, because I do believe you absolutely don't let my voice, my nervous voice, betray my belief, but I want to know where to start.
Well, the first thing I would, one of the things I'd tell you to do is seriously go out and find a copy and maybe even subscribe to Cigar Ficionado.
And the reason for that is that every cigar made is eventually tasted and rated and is priced.
And including Cubans, you'll find every size, every brand, every ring gauge, every length.
Not in every issue.
You have to read a whole bunch of issues to find them.
But it's a men's lifestyle magazine that started out as Cigar Ficionado.
Now it's much, much more than that.
But it's still the only place that's the final authority on cigars.
But if you're just looking for an entry-level cigar that I think you're looking at what would be affordable, see, now you're, if I answer that, the brands that I mention are going to feel insulted.
What?
We're entry-level?
What?
We're cheap?
But I'll give you a couple that you can't go wrong with.
Okay.
Fuente.
Fuente.
Go out and try to find a cigar in your price range made by Arturo Fuente.
Next, Macanudo.
Macanudo is a great cigar, mild cigar.
Ashton is another great brand.
Look, there's so many that I can't keep up with all the brand.
Well, the Padrones are Nicaraguan, but I think they may be out of his price range if you're really being price conscious here at the outset.
But the Padrones are a unique structured.
I mean, they're box pressed flat on top and bottom, and they do have an entirely unique flavor because there's so many cigars out there just so damn good.
You really can't go wrong, I don't think.
If you find one in a, are there any cigar stores?
There have to be cigar stores, tobacco stores in Little Rock.
There have to be cigars.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I know that there's one at least.
So I've tried to get access to the Clinton Library Massage Parlor to see what they had, but I couldn't muster up a big enough donation for that.
Clinton Library Massage Parlor, cigars are not used for smoking there.
There you would need a specific ring gauge and length.
Oh, man.
Well, you opened a door.
Clinton Library Massage Parlor.
I don't know that they've got a cigar store inside there, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
But seriously, I'm kind of up against it here because I don't want to, I know a lot of these people that make cigars, they attend the cigar dinner.
I don't mean to be sliding them by leaving the names out.
But Cigar Ficionado has a webpage that lists the top cigars for a year, the top 25 of 2014, for example.
Just go to cigarfusionado.com and follow the links.
And they've got a cigar 101 page on their site that is for beginners that will take you right to where you want to go.
I will do it.
Rush, thank you so much.
I appreciate your wisdom.
Well, I'm happy to impart it.
Now, here's one more bit of wisdom, too.
There's one thing I want you to learn to dispel.
There are many in the cigar smoking community.
I love that terminology, the cigar smoking community.
A lot of people think that the way to properly smoke cigars is in the morning, if you do one in the morning, make it very, very mild.
And then if you smoke one in the afternoon, make it a little step up in terms of stronger.
And then save the big, powerful favorite cigar for after dinner.
And that is horse hockey.
You find a cigar you like, start the day with it.
You find a cigar you like, stick with it and smoke it anytime you want it.
I will do it.
Don't be ashamed to smoke what you like.
That sounds like good advice.
Good wisdom.
It's true for practically anything.
If it's legal, you like doing things illegal, you're on your own there in terms of shame.
But good luck.
Good luck.
I'm happy.
Always happy and proud to welcome another member to the vast cigar smoker community.
The more, the barrier.
And we'll be back.
Here's Stuart in McLean, Virginia.
Hi, Stuart.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to talk to you about what you were discussing on Wednesday, the article in the National Catholic Reporter about Pope Francis.
Yes, sir.
So I, you know, just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm a young conservative Catholic, and I've always admired and respected your keen political insight and social commentary.
And it's precisely because I respect you that I wanted to call because I think you may be misinterpreting his words on Wednesday specifically.
I, like you, I'm kind of disappointed that he would jump on the global warming bandwagon and politicize something that he really should not have.
But regarding what you were talking about on Wednesday, like the genuine faith and the, you know, the yeah, what was it that I said Wednesday that you are taking issue with?
Was it the abortion component?
Well, I'm wondering why you think he's communist because of those parts.
Because, you know, he said the genuine, like if the faith doesn't affect your wallet, it's not sincere faith or genuine faith.
I forget which one it was.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I know what it was.
Because in the encyclical, the Pope specifically says that you must give and give beyond what you would normally have.
If you give from your disposable income, that doesn't really count.
I mean, it's nice, but if you're really serious, you've got to give some of what you need to others, not from your disposable income.
And I think I used the word, I might have said communist Marxist.
Take your pick on the definition.
But the economic aspects of what the Pope is talking about clearly are Marxist.
He wants the government to be the collection agency for all of this money to go out and refurbish the poor.
And he basically ends up saying that the more people who are he basically said, I don't know how to phrase this, reducing the number of rich people is a good objective.
Okay, I'm going solely off that, what you read in the National Catholic Reporter.
And I was just, to me, what he was saying there was not something that governments should do or, you know, just globally we should do, but it was an invitation for individuals to radically commit themselves to Christ and like being willing to part with those material goods, which I think is at the heart of the gospel, as he said.
And I just, I think he was talking about individuals, not governments.
Okay.
Well, okay, I'll grant you that, just for the sake of discussion, but I'll tell you what's going to happen because of it.
Governments are going to appropriate it, and governments are going to tell people that the Pope is encouraging them to implement his desires.
So, you know, whether he means it to be personal and absent government, people that love government, represent government, are going to move in and assume that not everybody's going to know what the Pope said directly, and it's going to be interpreted, and it's going to be hijacked.
So the Pope's message is to be hijacked by governments and people that believe in government and used to grow government, whether that's what he said or not, which is, I think you should be aware of.
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